HomeMy WebLinkAboutRe: use of property To: File - �50 East Long Lake Road
From: Mike Gaffron
Date: July l 6, 2008
I met today with property owner Maury Taylor and architect Bruce Schmitt, engineer
Peter Knaeble and surveyor Mark Gronberg to discuss possible options for the property.
Site is approximately 4-1/2 to 5 acres after excluding road and wetland. East Long Lake
Road exists along the western and northern periphery of the property as a prescriptive
right-of-way of undefined dimension.
Owner is looking at options for dividing the property in order to sell it, as the house is
very large. The group was advised that:
- subdivision to create a new 2-acre single-family lot will be difficult due to the existing
home being centrally located on the property;
- any proposal to divide the existing house into two or more individual dwelling units far
sale as condominiums would as a minimum require a rezoning, perhaps to RPUD, as well
as a Comp Plan Amendment;
-the property is located in a 2-zcre zone and the likelihood of the City Council approving
a change to allow density greater than 1 dwelling unit per 2 buildable acres is unlikely;
- because proposals to divide the house would not be allowed under the current zoning or
Comp Plan guiding, the appropriate initial starting point to pursue this would be a formal
comp plan amendment application, but only after the owner makes initial contact with
councilmembers and determines there is some level of support (comp plan amendment
requires a 4/5 vote)
- issues that would come up may include but are not limited to:
- sewer capacity
- road right-of-way
- impact on Met Council density calculation
- access layout, driveway vs private road width
- etc.
I would not consider this as a pre-application meeting; rather, it was an exploration of
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